Mercedes Sosa

小簡介
深受人們歡迎的Sosa有“大地之母”的美譽(yù)，不僅因?yàn)樗母枨腥朔胃?，也因?yàn)樗娜烁聍攘Α?br />1935年Sosa出生于阿根廷的Tucaman。憑借著優(yōu)異的天賦，15歲時參加廣播電視臺的業(yè)余歌唱比賽脫穎而出，自此正式展開她的音樂事業(yè)。
難得的是，歌唱并未被她當(dāng)成搏取名利的工具，而是為民喉舌的利器。她在專制的環(huán)境里為沉默的人民唱出他們的聲音，卻也因此惹來政治迫害。
1979年，在一次演唱會上，Mercedes Sosa被捕入獄，后被驅(qū)逐出境，流亡海外。期間她在歐洲各國仍然四處巡回表演，藉著音樂來傳達(dá)流亡異鄉(xiāng)的痛楚、對極權(quán)暴政的恐懼以及對自身政治立場的思考，直到1982年獨(dú)裁政府垮臺之后才又回到阿根廷。
by Jason Ankeny
The driving force behind the nueva canción movement, singer Mercedes Sosa was born and raised in Tucumán, Argentina, beginning her performing career at age 15 after taking top honors in a radio station amateur competition. A rich, expressive vocalist and a gifted interpreter, Sosa was dubbed "the voice of the silent majority" for her choice of overtly political material, and alongside artists including Violetta Parra and Atahualpa Yupanqui she spearheaded the rise of the so-called "nueva canción" movement, which heralded the emergence of protest music across Argentina and Chile during the 1960s. The movement was crippled in 1973 by the CIA-sponsored coup which ousted democratically-elected Chilean President Salvador Allende; with her repertoire of songs championing human rights and democracy, Sosa was viewed as a serious threat by the military regime which assumed power, and in 1975 she was arrested during a live performance which also resulted in the incarceration of many audience members. Death threats forced her to leave Argentina in 1979, and she remained in exile for three years, finally returning with a triumphant comeback performance in February 1982. Sosa recorded prolifically in the years to follow. In fall 2000, Sosa won a Grammy for Best Folk Album for Misa Criolla at the first annual Latin Grammy Awards.